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Definition of Pleural cavity
1. Noun. The cavity in the thorax that contains the lungs and heart.
Definition of Pleural cavity
1. Noun. (anatomy) The body cavity that surrounds the lungs and is enclosed by the pleura. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Pleural cavity
1. The potential space which lies in between the visceral pleura and the parietal pleura. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleural Cavity
Literary usage of Pleural cavity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"DISEASES AFFECTING THE pleural cavity. I. HYDROTHORAX (PLEURAL DROPSY). In cases
of nephritis or of cardiac weakness due to vascular or cardiac disease a ..."
2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Collection of Air in the pleural cavity. Pneumothorax. ... Those rare cases must
also be included where other gases get into the pleural cavity. Etiology. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"The upper part of the pleural cavity, being for the most part first freed from
the liquid, the contraction will be first observed in the corresponding part ..."
4. The Lancet (1898)
"It may, like the abdominal procedure, be carried •out in either one stage or in
two. If it is necessary to go through the pleural cavity on account of the ..."
5. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"The operation of Tapping the pleural cavity is required in cases of hydrothorax,
empyema, and haemothorax. The point of selection is a spot in the fifth ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"THE ASSOCIATION OF PERICARDITIS WITH EMPYEMA, AND THE EFFECTS OF INCISIONS INTO
THE pleural cavity.1 BY RICKMAN JOHN GODLEE, MS, FBCS, Surgeon to University ..."
7. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"DISEASES AFFECTING THE pleural cavity. I. HYDROTHORAX (PLEURAL DROPSY). In cases
of nephritis or of cardiac weakness due to vascular or cardiac disease a ..."
8. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Collection of Air in the pleural cavity. Pneumothorax. ... Those rare cases must
also be included where other gases get into the pleural cavity. Etiology. ..."
9. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"The upper part of the pleural cavity, being for the most part first freed from
the liquid, the contraction will be first observed in the corresponding part ..."
10. The Lancet (1898)
"It may, like the abdominal procedure, be carried •out in either one stage or in
two. If it is necessary to go through the pleural cavity on account of the ..."
11. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"The operation of Tapping the pleural cavity is required in cases of hydrothorax,
empyema, and haemothorax. The point of selection is a spot in the fifth ..."
12. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"THE ASSOCIATION OF PERICARDITIS WITH EMPYEMA, AND THE EFFECTS OF INCISIONS INTO
THE pleural cavity.1 BY RICKMAN JOHN GODLEE, MS, FBCS, Surgeon to University ..."
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